Technological Firm Makes Iran Needless of Importing Cosmetics, Health Products
“We started our activity with manufacturing natural and herbal products with the efforts of researchers in the cosmetics, medicinal plants and health promotion fields, and now our company is stationed at the Innovation Center of the Islamic Azad University’s Zanjan branch,” Parivash Qaderinia, a PhD in microbiology from Islamic Azad University’s Shiraz branch and the head of the company’s presiding board, told ANA.
Noting that the technological company is active in the field of cosmetics, hygiene and medicinal plants, she said that it has carried out research on different products, including nanogel mouthwash with rice extract and 2% chlorhexidine, bath cocktail, herbal and natural lipsticks without lead, herbal and natural lip balms, scented candles, air fresheners with herbal essence, various extracts of horsetail, malva and hyssop medicinal plants, rosemary and nigella sativa oils, body butter, skin scrub, all kinds of solid and creamy spirulina and ganoderma soaps, facial micellar water cleanser, bar lotion, carboxytherapy mask and anti-aging face.
Iran ranks fourth worldwide in tproduction of science in the field of traditional medicine, and the remarkable achievement will be improved in the coming years, Nafiseh Hosseini Yekta, the director of the Health Ministry’s Persian medicine office, said.
There are 2,500 plant species with medicinal properties in Iran where hundreds of local companies and research centers cultivate, harvest, and process these plants to extract their essential oils and create novel medications from them, luring in international businesses which are seeking low-price and high-quality products.
in an relevant development, a kind of herbal medicine recently produced by an Iranian company which can help alleviate stress and diminish insomnia.
Fatemeh Zahra Almasi, the managing director of Rouhan Sabz Paliz company, told ANA that the processed lemon grass plant is produced in dried form, in the form of essence, and in the form of extract.
The essence of the plant helps relieving insomnia or control stress, she added.
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